In my culture, there's a tradition that when you're in an overwhelming situation and you don't know what to do, you put… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Rahul Gandhi does not know Indian culture, so when he went to offer prayers at Kashi Vishwanath temple, he sat in a… — Yogi Adityanath Copy Share Image
I felt like my culture was taboo, which is so wrong. And I, you know, I felt like everything that my family… — Iman Vellani Copy Share Image
This is a comment on fear. Today it's like 'They're going to bomb the New York subway and there's the avian flu… — Adam Gollner Copy Share Image
I was brought up in many different cultures, moving around all the time, and I find my identity in my songs. I… — Mika Copy Share Image
“I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl and “transformed” her into a cheerleader… — Jess C Scott Copy Share Image
My culture comes from everywhere. I'm sick of this notion of nationality, that if you're brought up in the same city or… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Science, unguided by a higher abstract principle, freely hands over its secrets to a vastly developed and commercially inspired technology, and the… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
“What emerged for me as purpose was the search for and cultivation of possibilities for experiencing meaningful human transactions in different languages… — Daniel G. Campos Copy Share Image
These days I keep a journal, so I'm constantly sketching down my thoughts, or lines that come to me...ideas for songs. And… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“The Australian aborigines, reckoned to be among the most primitive of races upon evidence that is far from conclusive, have a region… — Olaf Ruhen Copy Share Image
“For while they'd stayed close during the absurd years of his sharp rise, having children had knocked it all into a different… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
We must come to understand the deep mutual connection or kinship between the various forms of our spirituality. We must recollect our… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“Culture can only function if we live out the unwanted elements symbolically. All healthy societies have a rich ceremonial life. Less healthy… — Robert A. Johnson Copy Share Image
It's sort of another innovation, probably a good innovation, of Western culture to separate the ideas between science and philosophy, but it's… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing. — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
One of the things is challenging yourself to do a Rome show when everybody's done a Rome show. To find some aspect… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to be exposed to film, art, literature, culture, and then told, 'Yes, you can do that, too.' It's… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their… — James Frey Copy Share Image
You could put Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley on one side of the stage, and James Brown… — Bill Wyman Copy Share Image
I have less time, less tolerance for bullshit, more interest in good taste, more confidence in my own judgement. The culture with… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“When sociobiologists start shitting in their backyards with dinner guests in the vicinity, maybe their arguments about innateness over culture will start… — Laura Kipnis Copy Share Image
Part of the shabbiness of our culture, if indeed it is shabby, is that it doesn't seem to prepare people. With all… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
You get a culture of entrepreneurship after you have successfully changed the accountability system so that people can use a better process.… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success… — Lance Loud Copy Share Image
The atheist realizes that there must not only be an acceptance of his right to hold his opinion, but that ultimately his… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
We need to have a unified understanding of our national heritage without losing our personal distinctives. The closer that national heritage is… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
We all have what might be called a culturally modified brain, and as cultures evolve, they continually lead to new changes in… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
“...O-suzu left whatever work she was doing at her sewing machine and dragged Takeo back to O-yoshi and her son. How dare… — Ryunosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
Live theatre for children is right up there in importance with reading aloud. It used to be part of our heritage many… — Rosemary Wells Copy Share Image
The culture looms much larger than you do as a parent, and one can hardly rely on the culture to impart the… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
The problem is, authentic hip-hop culture is street culture. And so you've got middle-class blacks really emulating the norms of the South… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000 years! - continue to live.… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
I mean, London has shaped me as a person. My parents are Nigerian so I've had the luxury of blending different cultures… — MNEK Copy Share Image
We, as a culture, use television as at least one of the great arbiters of truth. Even though we know it's fiction,… — Peter Paige Copy Share Image
The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
